Announcing Neo4j on Windows Azure
Peter Neubauer and Magnus Mårtensson write:
Neo4j has a ‘j’ appended to the name. And now it is available on Windows Azure? This proves that in the most unlikely of circumstances sometimes beautiful things can emerge. Microsoft has promised Java to be a valued “first class citizen” on Windows Azure. In this blog post we will show that it is no problem at all to host a sophisticated and complex server product such as the Neo4j graph database server on Window Azure. Since Neo4j has a REST API over HTTP you can speak to this server from your regular .NET (or Java) applications, inside or outside of the cloud just as easily as you speak to Windows Azure Storage.
Would be interesting if the cloud proves to be the impetus for the next step in interoperability.
The more opportunity for interoperability, the greater I see the need for topic maps to govern semantic interoperability.
So long as data interchange/interoperability is largely theoretical, there isn’t much sense in being concerned.
When your nearest competitor is gaining ground or pulling away because of data interchange/interoperability, it is an entirely different matter.